[PATCH 0/7] Get fast-test suite to run on FreeBSD

[David Marchand]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2026 at 18:13, Bruce Richardson
<bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
>
> Bugzilla ID: 761
>
> The standard "fast-tests" suite is used to sanity-check large parts
> of the DPDK codebase, but it failed to run successfully on FreeBSD,
> with large numbers of failures. This is a long-standing issue reported
> in Bugzilla back in 2021 (hence the 3-digit BZ ID)
>
> This set attempts to rectify this situation by allowing the suite
> to run without errors. Mostly it does this by disabling test suites
> that rely on features like multi-process which are unsupported on
> FreeBSD. It also fixes the test_debug suite which should run on
> BSD but was failing.
>
> After this set, a run on my FreeBSD system passes with zero failures
> and 22 tests reported as skipped.
>
> Bruce Richardson (7):
>   test/timer_secondary: skip test on FreeBSD
>   test/eal_flags: skip test on FreeBSD
>   test/pdump: skip test on FreeBSD
>   test/secondary_process: skip test on FreeBSD
>   test/external_memory: skip test on FreeBSD
>   test/interrupts: skip test on FreeBSD
>   test/debug: fix unit test on FreeBSD
>
>  app/test/process.h              | 11 ++++++++---
>  app/test/test_debug.c           |  6 +++---
>  app/test/test_eal_flags.c       | 26 +++++++++++++-------------
>  app/test/test_external_mem.c    |  4 ++--
>  app/test/test_interrupts.c      |  2 +-
>  app/test/test_mp_secondary.c    |  4 ++--
>  app/test/test_pdump.c           |  6 ++++++
>  app/test/test_timer_secondary.c |  4 ++--
>  8 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

I would put the exec discovery rework in a first patch, then squash
all the rest together.
Otherwise, it lgtm on the principle.


-- 
David Marchand